A Botanical Bucket-List Bloom

Thanks to a fellow plant-loving friend, a gardener checks off a botanical bucket list item with a one-night-only bloom

glad Monday GPODers !

First , I require to thank everyone for their feedback on my experimental post on Friday . Overall , I convey the sense that we most enjoy hearing more from the contributor themselves , and so do I ! I always try my best to make with whatever someone wants to contribute , whether that ’s paragraphs of entropy or just one photo , and I really take account the positive feedback I have gotten on my commentary . However , I can never describe a garden or work it to life like the person who created it and run it . I ’m still happy to accept whatever someone would like to partake , but just a note to future contributors — don’t be afraid to peach about your garden ! We all love hearing your chronicle and experiences .

As today ’s meekness exemplifies , your stories and experience are both unique and understood by fellow gardener . Sallie Boge has accede her garden a twosome of times in the past times ( check out those submissions : horticulture for the HungryandSallie ’s Pandemic Garden Project ) , but today she ’s divvy up a peculiar garden experience she had thanks to a friend :

My friend , Terri has a dark - blooming cereus(Epiphyllum oxypetalum , Zones 9–10 ) . Cereus , a member of the cactus family , is a menage plant life in our Chicago area Zone 6a , but Terri brings it out into the garden for the season . A genus Cereus flower blooms for one night only and then dies . I was able to check off another item on my botanical “ bucket list ” by witnessing it blossom lately . The photograph below were taken alfresco at around 9:00 p.m.

A blossom sure as shooting worth the wait ! I have not had the opportunity to see one of these botanical curiosity in person , but they ’re known to have an unbelievable , scented fragrance . From stories I ’ve seen from others with this plant , the odor is sometimes the only index number that the plant life has blossom and is what draws them in to check it out . Epiphyllum oxypetalumcan farm a flower one nighttime a year , but someone can own this plant for years before they see one of these elusive prime .

An even close look earmark us to see even more detail in the pure white-hot bloom that are often as large as a dinner plate . Plants in theEpiphyllumgenus are often called “ orchid cacti ” because , as Sallie mentions , they are part of the cacti family but have many orchidaceous plant - similar characteristics . ForEpiphyllum oxypetalumthat includes very exceptional conditions to bloom , which is why seeing one of these heyday outside of their natural growing home ground is such a rare natural event .

So when you have a garden friend as great as Sallie has found in Terri , you have a late - dark cup of chocolate and derail at the chance to see one of these botanic wonders .

give thanks you for sharing this unbelievable garden experience with us , Sallie ! The only affair better than bask beautiful flora is get great protagonist and family to share them with .

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